{"id":423077,"date":"2026-01-21T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423077\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:46:28","slug":"seve-ballesteros-life-sized-statue-goes-missing-in-pedrena-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423077\/","title":{"rendered":"Seve Ballesteros: Life-sized statue goes missing in Pedrena, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A life-sized statue commemorating five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros has gone missing from his hometown of Pedrena in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spanish authorities are investigating after Marina de Cudeyo town council said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTtFb1CDECt\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a> that the &#8220;unfortunate event&#8221; at the weekend indicates the statue was stolen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spaniard Ballesteros, who helped Europe win four Ryder Cups as player and then captain, died of brain cancer in 2011 at the age of 54.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If anyone has observed suspicious movements, especially in the last 24 hours, please let the Civil Guard or the local police know,&#8221; the council said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A life-sized statue commemorating five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros has gone missing from his hometown of Pedrena in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-423077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}